01/03/2020
Non-EU immigration to UK reaches record levels; Tier 4 visas
The high levels of UK immigration confirm that there are very serious skills shortages in the UK, and also confirms the great success that UK higher educational institutions have had in attracting overseas students on Tier 4 visas. A technologically advanced major economy like the UK needs a certain level of immigration to function and flourish. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence has not yet reached the stage that migrants can be completely replaced with technology (and indeed others!). Priti Patel the Home Secretary has suggested that automation may be a way forward.
This also suggests that claims by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel that the Conservative Government will be able to greatly reduce levels of immigration into the UK cannot be taken too seriously. The repeated claims by a previous Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron and others that net migration will be brought down to the “tens of thousands” is now being treated as a bit of a joke.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), non-EU immigration to the UK has hit its highest level since records began in 1975. The rise in non-EU immigration to the UK has been attributed to an increase in the number of Tier 4 visas issued to international students, especially Indians, who received 37,500 student visas in 2019, an increase of 93% from 2018.
ONS data shows that the number of people arriving in the UK from outside the EU in the year ending September 2019, increased to 379,000, surpassing the previous high of 370,000 in 2004. The data also shows that the number of people granted Tier 4 visas exceeded the number of people issued Tier 2 work visas for the first time ever.
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Posted on March 1, 2020 site_admin No Comments The high levels of UK immigration confirm that there are very serious skills shortages in the UK, and also confirms the great success that UK higher educational institutions have had in attracting overseas students on Tier 4 visas. A technologically adv...